Can someone please refute this...

Can someone please refute this? Are Isekai's really just regular anime but slapping Isekai in front of the name and the first ten minutes of the show?

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If it wasn't already obvious, try skipping the first episode of an isekai. See how long it takes for the MC's previous life to be relevant. It's just a lazy excuse to have a fish out of water protagonist that references genre cliches in lieu of proper explanations. You could still have some overpowered jerkoff tearing through generic medieval circle towns even without him having to be a complete self insert.

imagine if there was actually a decent proper isekai that showed character development and memories from the previous world

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It depends on the anime. Like in Shield Hero, the isekai aspect becomes almost completely irrelevant immediately, other than the main character needing exposition about the world once in a while (although I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a plot later, given that the end of the anime alluded to dimension hopping fuckery). On the other end of things, you've got series like Overlord where his original world comes up in the plot pretty often.

yes.

Isekai usually have really boring settings

Go watch Log Horizon if you want an isekai that takes full advantage of the writing possibilities of being trapped in another world.

Shield hero is better than most in that aspect because each hero gets leveling system based on a different game/book in their original worlds and it creates unique interaction between heroes.

yawn

>it creates unique interaction between heroes
Until Naofumi gets completely overpowered by the time of the training on the islands, so much so that the other three heroes become utterly irrelevant and the story loses all tension.

they even out once they get their asses cursed then kicked and join naofumi.

I hated the anime, but was willing to give the web novel a chance. Until I found just how much it went off the deep end. Fuck it, I'll stick to Re: Zero WN.

the LN is milder than the WN though.

Idk about LN and the mangas of other franchises.
But the Re Zero manga and LN has permanently turned me off from anything other than WN.
I like reading lores and stuff and LN, manga(and even worse, anime) dumbs down eveything to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

It's an excuse to explain the world from scratch and bring in miso/onions sauce/other cultural items. It also appeals to various power fantasies depending on what type of isekai it is

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i dont watch anime to personally benefit from a power fantasy. i watch it to become entertained by it, not be it. people who have power fantasies are watching for all the wrong reasons

Sometimes.
Sometimes not.

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Isekai are regular anime that basically skip character development 99% of the time and you're just suppose to accept all back stories. They are great for authors who like world building but hate character building.

There are few exceptions but overall 99% the same.

that and self-inserters

I don't particularly like it either, just explaining why it's popular right now
I'd say more 'traditional' fantasy do a better job of explaining their worlds anyway. Immersion being better than a 'fish out of water' protagonist

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Shame the worldbuilding is fucking boring in most isekai.

Yeah most people who do isekai often suck at building most back story or things only have basic ideas for settings.

Spear Hero gets much stronger than Naofumi after getting Lust and Envy

isekai tend to have much more first-person storytelling, a lot of normal anime are about a cast of characters.

there's also more wish-fulfillment (that's a good thing).

Quiet lich

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wasn't going back to your home world THE MAIN goal in isekai?
wtf happened

Isekai lets the Main Character enter a new world with knowledge of ours.
That's a big advantage in all these medieval worlds.
That's it, that's all.

>vidya worlds
that sound more like it
the only knowledge neets have

>subaru (most isekai)
>literally no skills
>main (the best isekai)
>actually brings skills

how else can I self insert, how else can I cling to the hope I can escape hikikomori into becoming an hero??

All worlds.
The point is that this 14 year old now has knowledge that only them (and sometimes some other few) have and that makes them special.

That and whatever gimmick the isekai has.

But that's the difference between "I lived in this world and suddenly got powers" and "I got transferred to this new world and suddenly I got powers"

Writers realized that going back to your old life is a thing only a cuck would do. Why sacrifice your harem of titty monsters and overpowered magic abilities for working at a minimum wage paying job? MCs being isekaid and learning a lesson that makes them grow as a character when going back to their original world is a thing of the past.